Learn about innovative educational programs for medical students and the impact they are having.

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My special guest Dr. Kevin Dieter is a family medicine and hospice and palliative care physician who helped to develop the nationally recognized palliative care curriculum at Northeast Ohio Medical University. He created a virtual learning module called “Being with Dying” for medical and pharmacy students to teach them what they need to know to be at the bedside of a dying patient. He discusses the course he offers, including training healthcare providers. Learn more from his website:

walking-home.com

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This episode includes:

• How Kevin first learned about end-of-life care from his patient “Mary”





• How Kevin went from being a family doctor to a hospice doctor





• The value of exposing medical students to dying patients





• 3 Pillars of wisdom:
  
  
  
  • dying are our teachers both directly and indirectly
  
  
  
  
  
  • we are the medicine for patients in our presence
  
  
  
  
  
  • dying is more than a medical event
  
  
  
  





• How he helped initiate a learning experience called “The Hospice Patient as Teacher” for 3rd year medical students





• How patients don’t want their physician to “run away” when they are dying





• The power of home visits for patients





• What “Being with Dying” consists of





• Why this course can be replicated by other programs





• Why he no longer talks about “good” or “bad” deaths





• How Kevin became an Anam Cara

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